How to open .coverage file

Question

I created a .coverage file using Vsperfmon.exe

I am currently using the licensed version of VS 2012 professional for web . Result .coverage could not be opened in VS Professional . After Googling, I found out that VS Ultimate can open it

Instead of using VS Ultimate are there any plugins for VS professional 2012 or any third-party solutions?

Answer 1

I spent some time studying this today, since I am in a similar situation; I have a .coverage file generated by TFS and VS 2012 Pro, and I cannot view the file. As far as I can tell, the answer is: "You need VS Premium or Ultimate to view .coverage files."

I found http://reportgenerator.codeplex.com/ which generates reports based on coverage files in XML format. It includes instructions for converting .coverage to XML (see http://reportgenerator.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Visual%20Studio%20Coverage%20Tools&referringTitle=Documentation ), but this process depends on Microsoft.VisualStudio.Coverage.Analysis , which is not in VS Pro.

Answer 2

Another tool I learned to convert a .coverage file to a human-readable format is Visual Coverage . It is converted to html